( Meanwhile back on the dimensional battlefield)
Four days had passed since Max was absent from the dimensional battlefield and tensions had started to mount once more.
The dark faction users were on the cusp of triggering yet another disc raid and tensions were high in the light faction on as to who was going to face the next disc raid.
The light faction was coming out on top of this war so far, however, the fighting was far from over and every disc raid and every subsequent fight could significantly change the landscape of the war.
Oddly, the safest disc currently under the light faction was the one being defended by Julian and Vega as apart from those two tier 7 god's, there was an injured Hades and the forger king also present to bolster defenses.
On paper it was the best defended disc and would be an absolute nightmare for any opponent to conquer.
Subsequently, the worst defended dark faction disc currently was the one that was supposed to be protected by Kane.
Since the disc raid of his disc had not yet been triggered it was still safe, but the moment it would be triggered it would be a walk in the park for the light faction elves to destroy that disc that was currently without a monarch protecting it.
Just as how the dark faction was closing in on a raid, the light faction was too as the two were neck and neck now in terms of orbs destroyed.
It was entirely possible that both raids were triggered on the same day under which circumstance it would prove to be a big day for the future of the war.
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( Rudra's POV )
Rudra who was looking at the elites closing in on destroying the 200th orb looked on in anticipation as he wondered which disc raid would be triggered.
At the moment several fights were going throughout the battlefield and although both factions were inching closer to the next disc raid with 199 orbs destroyed on both sides, the light faction looked to be closer to that 200 mark objective in real time.
Then it happened -
Sir Jhonny destroyed the 200th orb and a disc raid was triggered!
A beam of pure white light shot up towards the sky from the disc that Kane was supposed to protect and Rudra felt absolutely elated that the easy raid was triggered first.
As already decided, the one to respond to this call were the elves, his in-laws including Ruby's father and his soldiers.
Bows and arrows at the ready, they marched in a rhythmic beat, ready to bring the fight to the enemy with all their vigour.
A few hours passed in a blink of an eye and the massive elf army crossed the massive plains of the dimensional battlefield to arrive at their target destination.
If there was ever a scenario of one sided slaughter that would be recorded in history books, it was bound to be this fight as against the constant magical arrows of the elf army the human forces of Kane were defenceless as they were slaughtered by the thousands.
The fight seemed to be an easy win, but it was at that moment that the dark faction scored their 200th orb as well and triggered their own disc raid as well.I think you should take a look at
And as if the queen was deliberately playing a joke, the raid that was triggered just happened to be the one that the elf king was supposed to protect.
Already being on the march in the middle of a battle, the elf king could do nothing as he watched Memphidos travel solo into his territory that had only the bare minimum of defences left with the strongest of his forces already being by his side.
On one end the elf king destroyed the enemy orb, but on the other hand he could only cruelly watch as his own orb was destroyed by Memphidos who made the most of this unique situation.
It was a tactical blunder on the part of the light faction, as during their war plans on who was going to attack if which disc was triggered, they never considered a situation where both sides triggered a disc raid together leading to this disastrous outcome.
Yes, the light faction scored a big win by destroying the enemy disc, yet nobody was celebrating that night because they knew what they had lost in the process.
The dark faction on the other hand celebrated the destruction as a festival as they knew that if the elf king and his forces were stationed to defend, it would have been an ugly fight claiming millions of lives.
For them, this was the best outcome possible.
Rudra, who watched all of these dramatic events unfold, couldn't help but feel disgusted by the queen's dirty politics.
She was meant to be neutral in this war, yet she was masterfully playing the odds against the light faction.
She triggered the first disc raid on their side to be the dwarves and masterfully created a scenario where the second raid was at a defenceless base.
While the vast majority would consider this to be bad luck, Rudra knew what it was-
It was deliberate and systemic partiality.
The queen did not want the light faction to really prevail and it was all the more reason for Rudra to make sure that she did not succeed in her schemes.
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( Meanwhile Max )
After having an enlightenment about time, Max decided that the next force he wished to figure out was gravity.
He was back at the landing spot and with an open mind he began experimenting the trajectory of various rocks that he threw to understand how gravity was acting on them.
He had now understood that the first step to bring this plane under his control was to develop a deep understanding about all three laws of space, time and gravity as only then would he be able to traverse this plane the same way he could traverse solid land back on dombivli.
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/// A/N - chapter 8/10, enjoy ///